is speed a concern?

Another possibly silly question arising from perusal of the great Mule merge... Is speed (or small linear factors in memory) ever actually a concern nowadays? The whole deal of supporting multiple internal buffer formats seems to be justified by speed for multi-lingual processing, and there are various tricky things scattered around the rest of the code to improve speed. The last time I can remember being disturbed by XEmacs' slowness was sometime in the mid 90s when I was running Lucid Emacs 19 on a 68040. (The days when a full compile was a go-out-for-long-dinner job rather than a you-may-just-have-time-to-make-coffee job.) On the other hand, I don't do extensive non-English processing. Do people find XEmacs noticeably slow in any normal usage pattern? -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta